Wednesday, September 20, 2006

How to Hack the Diebold Voting Machine: the Video

Complete instructions on how to make a Diebold Voting machine throw votes anyway you want regardless of what the users actually put in.

it's a little slow getting started but worth the time.

Also note, as reported in other venues, the standard administrator password is 2 letters. The flaws in this machine have been known in the crypto community since 2002. To date, Diebold has fixed exactly zero of them.

On a personal level, I know some of the folks at Diebold. They are *very* hesitant to talk about this at all, however the one time we had a serious security discussion one of the guys floored me with this line:
"The real problem is that the machine votes are *too accurate*. It embarasses a lot of customers when their districts come out as being strongly in the other party, so they call and complain"
Weird

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